These mushrooms have smooth, sticky, and somewhat flat caps with a dark honey-brown color and a ring around the stalk. They usually grow in loose groups on decaying wood and logs, both deciduous ...

Death caps have a pale yellowish-green, at times pale brown or near-white, umbrella-shaped cap of 10-cm diameter, a white stem, white spores on the cap, a cup-like formation at the base of the ...

While most poisonous mushrooms have been graced with self-explanatory nicknames over the years, the death cap mushroom might have the most foreboding alias of them all. Formally known as Amanita ...

Guide to the mushrooms you can safely eat - and the poisonous ones you must avoid. E rin Patterson, 48, hosted the lunch at her home in Victoria, Australia, on July 29; Each guest became ill after ...

We also heard from a mycologist (an expert in fungi and mushrooms), who shed some light on the toxic death cap mushroom species at the centre of the lunch. Here's what we learned: 1.